DESIRE referes to:

[u2mex]

Hi
Does any one know in "Desire":
"She's the dollars/She's my protection/Yeah, she's the promise/In the year of election"
Refers to who???

 

[kimby]

I'm going out on a limb here...probably refers to desire...

(You know...we desire money, protection, election promises from politicians)

 

[mandrake]

I thought the line was "she's the promise in your collection"

Guess that makes sense though.

 

[u2mex]

I don't remmeber how, but I think DESIRE is based in a violent district in New Orleans, I guess she refers a "gun".
Anyway it was a question in a contest to win a trip to Hawaii that already ended.
Thanks

 

[phillyfan26]

Violent district of NO would make sense with the lyrics...

 

[Bono in Melb]

"John Lennon was once asked whether Ringo Starr was the best drummer in the world, to which he responded "He's not even the best drummer in the Beatles".

 

[becca_lyn]

I don't remmeber how, but I think DESIRE is based in a violent district in New Orleans, I guess she refers a "gun".

I knew I wasn't losing it when I told someone I had heard that one before! I heard that Bono wrote the song during the JT tour after a visit to New Orleans.

There's a part of town in the area I grew up in called "Desire." Y'all heard of "A Streetcar Named Desire," right? Well, this part of town was/is not a great part of town. Total ghetto. Full of crackwhores and murder. And it makes total sense when you know how that part of town is...

I seriously thought I was losing it. This was an argument between myself and a co-worker not too long ago.